North Korea fired three unidentified projectiles on Monday March 9, the South Korean military said. The announcement comes a week after Pyongyang tested two short-range missiles, resuming testing after a three-month suspension.
The three projectiles were fired from the Sondok region on the east coast, where there is a military airfield and from where North Korea conducted missile tests last year, and in the direction of the South Sea. Japan, the South Korean headquarters said in a statement, without further details. " The military is watching for other possible shots and remains on high alert, " he said.
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In a statement, the South Korean army headquarters said the projectiles were fired from the coastal city of Sondok,
A Japanese army spokesman said that North Korea appeared to have fired " one or more ballistic missiles " which, to its knowledge, had not entered the territory or the exclusive economic zone of Japan.
North Korea announced a week ago that Kim Jong Un had overseen a "long-range artillery fire" after Pyongyang threatened to demonstrate a new weapon. Fire tests were conducted in late 2019, the last of which was in November, radically ending a period of relaxation in 2018. Kim Jong Un " continues to test, improve and operationalize his forces, " commented on Twitter Vipin Narang, an MIT researcher specializing in nuclear weapons.
